How do you differentiate eternity from everlastingness in a philosophical sense?

Question

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Answer 1

If we assume the universe is multidimensional as in 10D M-Theory or Einsteins 4D Space-Time we can assume objects or events outside our spacetime. E,g, Loosely speaking, our universe's space and time started with our big bang and from the point of view of people in the universe there is no time before the big bang. However from a Godlike view from outside our universe , the colision of the parent universes occurred prior to the birth of the universe.

In the Bible we get the idea that eternity refers to God and the Angels living in a different time frame outside the universe.

Answer 2

Eternity seems to suggest a few extra characteristics. It does not have a beginning while everlastingness does. Eternity also exists out of time you are always in the now. There is no sense of past or future. Everlastingness would have a sense of time. It would be immortal, living forever, ancient eventually. Outside of having a beginning, a lot of the differences would be found in the nuances.

Answer 3

well eternity is purely the existence of never ending time, the stretch from the beginning of the Universe (if there was a beginning) forever onwards. everlastingness, on the other hand, is more typically the state of an object. if we take the adjective eternal, this is generally applied to an object, eg an eternal human being, a common dream... however, everlasting would usually be used with an abstract noun eg. my everlasting (or undying) devotion

Answer 4

Success would never be as gratifying without the possibility of failure. If you know when you set out on a venture that it is bound to work out well, where's the challenge? I feel I need to be careful how much I tell you, even though I have nothing but good news to share. Still, though, if you hear it and believe it, where will be your motivation? And, how will you live without the dramatic tension of uncertainty? Don't be too eager to dispel all doubt. A little mystery may yet give rise to a lot of magic.

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Answer 5

Now is the only aspect of time 'eternally' present; now IS eternity. It is misunderstood as 'everlastingness.' We each long for an experience of 'eternal aliveness' in this incarnation. That is what religion misconstrues in an after death 'eternal heaven.'

Answer 6

Something that has no actuality has no time, but eternity with no actuality is inactive. Something which lasts, lasts as its self or it is not lasting. Something forever lasting as its self is in-actual in its self, or it becomes not its self, i.e. it changes in its internal actuality. Inchangability, or untransformable, unchangeable would be the common quality for the two, but as was mentioned before, one has a start, the other has infinite history.

Answer 7

I think eternity is going on forever and ever as in something alive wherein everlasting is something that even though not existing anymore, has left something of value or of meaning.

Answer 8

Words are merely words, but the assignment of meaning to them is the manipulation of its effect on the audience.

Inference is the word I am looking for.
Though both words you mentioned may technically be synonyms, a charismatic speaker can use them for hours on end to push an audience to frenzy of excitement or the pit of despair.

Answer 9

I guess eternity means without beginning or end whereas ever lastingness means it has a beginning but will then last forever.

Answer 10

Eternity =ending) (everlasting= neverending)
Ex. I wanted this thing to last till eternity.
I wanted to end this everlastinglasting pain and sorrow